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bottom line, the guy gets 50 emails in his box tomorrow morning about bad umpiring at a game, it makes him think about it... at least for a second.

you'd be surprised... my wife wrote a letter to mlb for a classroom project and got a beautiful response from bob dupay, including a phone call to her to ask some follow up questions about the project and her students.

QUOTE(Soxfest @ Mar 31, 2008 -> 10:24 PM) Email address not working! mine didn't bounce.. [email protected] bounced but not mike.port

the out call at home and first bother me more than the cabrera slide. those 2 out calls were based upon the umpirte being out of position, which is unacceptable.

[email protected] share your thoughts on today's umpiring.

[email protected] he is the vp of umpiring.

god i'm glad juan uribe is on this team. 0-3 w/3 k's.

if anyone didn't see it last night, GWB got a mixed reaction yesterday at the Washington Nationals game. Question is... is it ok to boo the President?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 27, 2008 -> 08:15 PM) And I would bet that 95%, at least, of investment money comes from this income bracket. You would literally be penalizing the very people who put liquidity and capital into the markets. Poor people by their very nature don't invest, because they don't have the disposable income to invest. If you start making it too expensive to invest, people will search out other areas to place their money. If we get back to 39% income taxes and 28% capital gains taxes, to go along with the inflation problems and lack of lending capital, it will be the mid to late 70's all over again. or people will invest through traditional tax-free investment routes like 401ks and IRA's and thus no capital gains penalities until they retire, when their tax rates are lower. if anything, a rate increase would mean that more long-term investing would be utilized rather than the short-term ups and downs of today.

in case anyone was wondering, in the winner take all electoral college system in the 2004 presidential election GWB got 1 electoral college vote for every 454,629 votes cast in the states he won. JK got 1 electoral college vote for every 459,171 votes cast in the states he won.

MANATEE COUNTY - Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two 93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings. In the case of Frank Milio, prosecutors have issued subpoenas and plan to take him to trial in April. Milio, according to police records, tried to pay $20 in November to an undercover officer on 14th Street West. Milio recently told the Herald-Tribune he was only flirting with the woman. "I haven't had that in years," he said. "Ninety-three is kind of old." Carlos Underhill, 93, will not be charged, although he does not deny stopping to chat with the "good-looking girl" who made eyes at him and turned out to be an undercover officer. Police say Underhill was willing to pay $30 for sex and that he promised to come back a few hours later to consummate the deal. Prosecutors say that they cannot move ahead with the criminal case because there is no way to prove Underhill planned to come back. Underhill was fined $150 for trying to pick up a prostitute in 1990, when he was 75. In the latest case, he says, he was not cruising Tamiami Trail for sex: He just wanted to chat with the buxom woman who smiled at him as he drove past. "All I was going to do was talk," he said Monday. "It wasn't for sex. I am 93, you know."

i did. very interesting to see the inside workings of the office. imo the piece made Bush, Tenet and Powell to seem better than I originally expected, with Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld made out to be the idiots of the group.

Did Toby Hall get his first hit of the spring. I see his average has skyrocketed to .086

i really don't think that demand will ever decrease substantially with price increases. as a society, our framework depends upon vehicular transportation. anyone who works in the suburbs, pretty much has to drive to work, grocery stores, doctors, etc. On the flip side, maybe an increase in gas prices, leads to more people moving into the city then away from it?

like anything else, freedoms come with some kind of limits. freedom of speech does not mean that I can roll into my wife's 2nd grade classroom and talk about porn.. or yell fire in a crowded theater. freedom to bear arms does not mean that i can have a tank or a ground-to-air missle launcher or even those cop-killer guns/bullets that you hear so much about. freedom of the press doesn't mean that you can write unfactual, made up stories about individuals. (slander, lawsuits, etc)

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Mar 20, 2008 -> 08:58 PM) Should and would are very different. He wouldn't open his books. And he shouldn't open his books. What the White Sox make or don't make is really nobody's business but the shareholders. thank you. someone is actually reading the posts in this thread. do you think that it would help his (or the Sox) image, if they did and it showed JR's statements to be accurate? actually, the White Sox have borrowed money in the past from Fleet Business Credit and Banc One. (anyone work there who wants to glance over those financials and tell us what they say)

southside... is your bracket busted already? What's with the hostility. Where did I say that JR is a poor (partial-owner). Where did I say that JR should open his books. I ask hypothetical questions that have nothing to do with me particular, just a general line of thought. in addition, that was not a Mariotti article at all. Talk about jumping off the deep end, jesus.

so would JR ever open the books for everyone to look at and examine?

"Milwaukee is a permanent fixture in the NBA," Kohl said Wednesday after he announced that Larry Harris left as general manager. "I'm not in this business to make any annual profits. The value of the asset fortunately has appreciated over the years. On an annual basis, it's a money-losing proposition. I'm in it because I love the sport, I love the competition and I love winning."

how's a #10 ranked team a #7 seed again???

isu got screwed hard not making the NCAA and Butler (ranked #10 in the nation) got screwed ever harder with a #7 seed against a team in their home state.

interesting point with Edwards. How many delegates does he have? If he assigned or asked his delegates to move to either Clinton or Obama, would that mathmatically allow either one of them to win the nomination pre super delegates?

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 03:45 PM) This guy has an interesting take on reforming the primary calendar for future elections. ehhh, i still like the lottery idea. with primaries being held in 1 state, each Tues, Thurs and Saturday every week. all states would have voted in 17 weeks (4 1/2 months) starting in mid January and ending in the first week of June. This system would allow candidates to stay in the races longer (time wise) and insure that each state no matter of size, voting history, demographics, location or media markets and costs have an equal and fair opportunity to play an important role in the process. Heck, imagine if either Hawaii or Alaska led off. the sad thing with the current system, is that Iowa and New Hampshire are small media markets with cheap ad buys... which is why second-tier candidates this year liked the system. If you started at say NY or CA, you better have some big $ in the bank to pay for ads or you are dead in the water early.

i hear that Hillary Clinton's hair dresser might be a scientologist and John McCain's butcher might be a racist. anything else we want to waste time discussing before the PA primary???

i'll throw an open-ended comment into the mix. if we all care about US automakers and jobs (which I think we do) are we benefiting or hurting the "US automakers" by purchasing clearly inferior vehicles?